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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Benjamin Franklin
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
Benjamin Franklin
If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time can never be found again
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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin Franklin
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin
Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Benjamin Franklin
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
Benjamin Franklin
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
Benjamin Franklin
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Benjamin Franklin
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin
